Re: Call for Consensus - Selectors Last Call

Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:06:23 +0100, "Charles McCathieNevile"
> <chaals@opera.com> wrote:
>> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api/ [2] 
> 
> Is it just me or is the "scope element" somewhat under-defined in the
> spec? The only mentions of it are in this sentence:
> 
> "If the context node is a Document node, then the scope element is 
> the documentElement of the given document. If the context node is an
> Element node, then the scope element is the same as the context 
> node."
> 
> However, it doesn't say what the scope element does or why it's 
> relevant, nor does it have a reference to any other spec that 
> explains this. I did a quick search through the list archives (I 
> haven't been following it too closely) and it looks like the :scope 
> pseudo-class will be defined in another spec.

It was added with the intention of referencing whichever spec :scope (or 
whatever it gets called) gets defined in, which will most likely be 
Selectors Level 4.  The statement itself makes sense when read in the 
context of the :scope proposal.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2008Jul/att-0025/Overview.html

But I suppose I could comment it out for now, until :scope is defined in 
a real spec and the statement is actually needed.

> Also, since the scope element stuff was deferred to another spec,
> this spec remains somewhat ambiguous (at least to me) about exactly
> what gets selected in the following case:
> 
> <html>
>  <body>
>   <div class="bar">
>    <div id="foo">
>     <div class="baz"></div>
>    </div>
>   </div>
>  </body>
> </html>
> 
> document.getElementById('foo').querySelector('.bar .baz')

This is covered in the spec by the statement:

   "Selectors are evaluated against a given element in the context the
    entire DOM tree in which the element is located."

> I believe the above querySelector call should return the "baz" div as 
> opposed to NULL, but it took me a few close readings of the spec to 
> decide on that. A clarifying example in the spec would be quite 
> helpful on this one.

Yeah, I suppose it's not too late to add a small example illustrating that.

I've made those changes in the current editor's draft.  Though I'd 
rather not make too many additional changes now as I don't want to hold 
up publication.  Any other issues like this can wait till after this 
Last Call draft is published and can be fixed before it goes to CR.

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Received on Friday, 31 October 2008 23:53:36 UTC